The Times-Reporter
NEW PHILADELAPHIA A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to a year in prison for selling powerful opioids to a man who died shortly afterward.
Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Elizabeth Lehigh Thomakos sentenced John A. Arnder on Wednesday for selling carfentanil and fentanyl to Johnathan D. Brinkman on June 20, 2019. Brinkman, 23, of New Philadelphia, died the same day. He was a great child . had a heart of gold, Brinkman s mother Carla Pringle said in court.
Pringle asked the judge to hold Arnder accountable. He took my son on his sister s birthday, she said.
Pringle noted that Arnder was free on his own recognizance, after having been charged with other drug offenses, at the time he sold drugs to her son. She said Brinkman might not have died if Arnder had been held accountable for the prior offense.